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Despite my decades-long love for all things Shugak, this most recent book in the series has me re-thinking my fiction qualifiers. This is not the first author I have anxiously awaited a release from only to be disappointed to find that personal political opinions are driving the story. Not only did Stabenow take a ridiculous amount of liberty with the actual facts regarding the conditions at the southern border determent camps, it appears that she did not even bother to verify the information. If she had, she probably would have been dismayed to realize that, given the circumstances created by the REEDONKULOUS numbers trying to cross the border illegally, the US has done an amazing job feeding and housing illegal immigrants until each citizenship situation can be addressed. If I told 25 friends to come over for the weekend, I would be prepared with food and necessities to take care of us all. If those 25 friends brought 25 friends each (and I'm not even coming close to the real numbers), there is NO WAY I would be able to take care of everyone's needs adequately. That's the situation at our border right now. It's been the situation down here for decades. "This administration" (as referred to in the book) is FAR from being the reason our border conditions are stressed beyond belief. Where was all this liberal outrage when the previous Democrat administration had those cages built to begin with? In the interest of honesty, most immigrants at the border receive the first medical treatment of their lives and probably the first decent meal and bath they've had in months. The swipe Stabenow takes at former Federal Agents being the procurers of immigrant children to be trafficked is not only greatly offensive, it encourages an erroneous dismissive attitude towards the front-line agents who EVERY DAY work hard to help people the best they can under extremely stressful and difficult circumstances. As a right of center conservative, I'm finding more and more liberal authors have still not come to terms with the 2016 election and venting their political spleens in their fiction work apparently brings them oodles of enjoyment. At least let's hope it does because I'd be willing to wager that it's losing them some fans. With that being said, I may or may not pick up Shugak #23. For the first time since I picked up A Cold Day for Murder in 1993 (newly moved into my first condo in Dallas waiting on my first paycheck to buy a TV), I can honestly say that, at this point, I don't care what happens with this series now.